Replication data for: Fig 5.14, BTPDs, weaning vs within-coterie synchrony, 03 Nov 2025

FILE DESCRIPTION Keywords: black-tailed prairie dog, synchrony of weaning date File name: Fig 5.14, BTPDs, Weaning vs within-coterie synchrony, 03 Nov 2025 Old file name: Cotsync4.sys, a SYSTAT file that I created on 02 Nov 1991? Or 06 Jan 1992? Female's date of estrus and copulation = date of her underground consortships (See chapter 15) Coterie designation = temporary name for coterie per year for this file. These designations are for my convenience. Synchrony score = 2 = period when most of females in coterie copulated Synchrony score = 1 = 4 or more days EARLIER than the copulations for the more synchronous females Synchrony score = 3 = 4 or more days LATER than the copulations for the more synchronous females Litter size = litter size at first emergence of offspring from their natal nursery-burrow = number of weanlings. Yearlings = number of weanlings that survive for >= 9 months after first emergence Litter or no litter = 0 = female did NOT wean a litter Litter or no litter = 1 = female DID wean a litter Mean juvenile body mass = mean of all body mass of juveniles from the same litter. All data in this file are from coteries in which a minimum of three females came into estrus. Within coteries that contained >=3 females that came into estrus, some did NOT have a female with a Synchrony score of 1 and some did NOT have a female with a score of 3. See Fig 5.13 to verify the fact just affirmed. All data in Fig 5.14 have been checked TWO TIMES for Hoogland 1995 (page 321), but I cannot find the numbers to verify the trends shown in Fig 5.14. Evidently I looked at the computer file at creation in 1991 or 1992, and then for coteries with >=3 females that came into estrus I assigned a Synchrony score of 1, 2, or 3 for each female that came into estrus. And that's why the coterie designations are in this file. I could that again now with the data in this EXCEL file, but will not bother--because I did that in 1991 or 1992 for Fig 13.24(Top) of Hoogland 1995, and I checked the information TWO TIMES. To summarize: All the data in Fig 5.14 are correct and have been checked TWO TIMES, and all the data to re-construct Fig 5.14 are in this EXCEL file. These data used for Fig 5.14 in Hoogland 2026. This file ready for longterm storage on 24 May 2025. File name: Fig 5.14, BTPDs, Weaning vs within-coterie synchrony, 24 May 2025